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It is spring and time for a new round of mentorship matching! This time we are also looking for new mentors, so if you are interested in supporting animal behaviours students do join us!

New paper out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… We propose how knapping could have taken hold among early hominin groups. Mainly, a reliance on naturally occurring flakes to cut could have bridged a gap between the making of bone flakes, and intentional knapping of stone flakes. 1/7

JOB OPENING: I'm looking to hire a full-time RA! If you know someone who interested in language and the brain and would be a great fit, please send them my way! Full details below:

🚨 New paper 🚨 Out in Communications Psychology: "Manipulating attention facilitates cooperation" with Claire Lugrin and Christian Ruff We use gaze data and display manipulations in one-shot Prisoner's Dilemma games and find that these manipulations can drive choices through attention 👇

🌿 Become a Field Site Manager for the Moyen Bafing Chimpanzee Project in Guinea! 🌿 We're seeking a dedicated individual to oversee operations and support research starting as early as April 2025. Be part of a team exploring chimpanzee behavioral ecology in the stunning PNMB!

woooooo! Out in Child Development: "Learning Loopholes: The Development of Intentional Misunderstandings in Children" paper: srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cd… preprint: tomerullman.org/papers/kids_lo…

2025 UCL Global Undergraduate Scholarship in UK | Fully Funded Countries: United Kingdom🇬🇧 (i) The University College London in the United Kingdom is inviting applications for UCL Global Undergraduate Scholarship. (ii) The Scholarship is available to students from all

New in Science Magazine: "Large AI models are cultural and social technologies" Working with brilliant colleagues Henry Farrell, Alison Gopnik, and Cosma Shalizi, we challenge the prevailing narrative about AI models as autonomous agents. science.org/stoken/author-…

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In episode 143, I talk with Dr. William von Hippel about his book, The Social Leap: The New Evolutionary Science of Who We Are, Where We Come From, and What Makes Us Happy. #evolutionarypsychology #Science youtu.be/T8K5fbEezbE

Upcoming deadlines: March 21 is the deadline for applications to the ASN Graduate Student Travel Award, and for Volunteer Travel Awards. More information here: evolutionmeetings.org/participation-… @ASNAmNat SSE Society of Systematic Biologists #Evol2025

GRANT WRITING WORKSHOP: SUCCESS FORTHE SMALL RESEARCH GRANT AND BEYOND 💻 ASP Webinar 📆 11 April 2025 | 1:00 pm EST 🔗 Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

nature.com/articles/s4415… Compelling metaanalysis of interventionsby Dolores Albarracin highlights the effectiveness of community nudges over personal nudges in prompting societal behavior change. In facing global challenges like climate change and pandemics, understanding how to

🎉 We're proud to welcome Michael Muthukrishna as Research Lead for our Cities, Culture, & Technology cluster! CCT explores how culture influences the social processes that drive innovation in cities, shaping how new ideas, products, and practices are generated and spread. More👇

Building on Michael Muthukrishna and Joe Henrich's theory of "innovation in the collective brain," the CCT cluster focuses on three themes: 🤝 Sociality and Urban Networks 🗣️ Transmission Fidelity and Social Learning 🌍 Variance, Tolerance, and Migration

Cities are the primary incubators of human ingenuity and creativity. The future of cities is the future of progress. Welcome to AUL, Michael Muthukrishna! Beyond excited about this research agenda. 🎉

👀Can knowing someone’s goal change how you see their actions? Three studies reveal how goal-driven expectations subtly bias action perception — but when the goal is negated, the effect disappears! 🔎see: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #TheoryOfMind #SocialPerception #PredictiveCoding

Cumulative culture was long treated as the defining difference between human and non-human culture. In this lovely new article, Eli Elster (also my PhD student) reviews new research suggesting that cultural open-endedness is a better candidate for what makes us special.

Amazing opportunity! Come join us in OB Stanford Graduate School of Business — a hub for foundational research into culture from psychological, sociological, and computational perspectives.

In episode 154, I talk with Dr. Robert McCauley about the #CognitiveScience of Religion, culture, cognition, evolution, and ritual. #Anthropology #Science youtu.be/MPkj12JxxcY